The Pace Chronicle - Volume II, Issue XII

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The Pace Chronicle Volume II, Issue XII

Inside News..............3 Feature...........2,4 Health...........5 Opinion.........6,7 Entertainment.....9,10 Sports...........11,12

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Guns: A New Controversy Erin O’Gorman News Editor

Erin.M.OGorman@Pace.edu

Elephant for Ivory

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Back to School Blues

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Countless times guns have been the focal point in many tragedies. In the past guns were affiliated to gang activity, destruction, and other problems relating to violence. Most recently, however, these weapons have gained a new reputation.

Guns have become the center for mass shootings such as Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, CT. Others include the shooting of a movie theater in Aurora, the massacre at Virginia Tech College, and the death of five Amish girls when a man shot up a school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

The list goes on. In addition, another shooting happened recently in Aurora in a townhouse complex which left five people dead.

It is noted that the men who performed these crimes were all mentally ill or unstable, and, had to have clear easy access to a weapon. Also, the states in which some took place (i.e. Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado) are all what are called “gun states”.

That means guns are sold there at places like Walgreens or CVS

Photo from guncommunity.com The issue of gun control sweeps the nation. for a low price, and sometimes without any kind of permit or ID, making them available to anyone and everyone.

“Guns have been a part of people’s lives for a long time. People just need to be more responsible with them,” said freshman biology major Jason Herd.

“We don’t need to ban guns completely. We just need to change who has access to them, make it stricter,” said freshman nursing major Greysi Soto.

In the state of New York a new gun law was passed which will ban all assault weapons that have more than seven bullets and

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More Than The Games CJ Dudek

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require background checks regarding sales. In addition, it will weed out people like hunters and policemen from those attempting to buy guns for purposes of violence. This bill will also add on to

Photo from thecollegefootballscene.com Where does the money go?

7,298,329 is a seven-digit combination that Pace doesn’t think you know about.

The student athletes that participate in softball, swimming, basketball, and all of the other sports on campus sum up these seven digits. From recruiting, to expenditures, to coaches; it’s all on ope.ed.gov/athletics.

7,298,329 million dollars is the total amount of money that Pace spent on their entire athletic department including teams, coaches, and staff according to this one website run by the U.S Department of Education.

Schools across the country from Pace to Alabama are required to disclose their financial information to the U.S. Department of Education as a result of the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act of 1994.

Not every figure that Pace is required to release to the U.S. Department of Education is satis-

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factory for everyone. After seeing the statistics for herself, sophomore communications major Samantha Clarke finds that certain expenses appear unnecessary.

“It does seem that Pace spends a lot of money on athletics,” Clarke said. “The amount for game day and recruiting seems unnecessary, but I do feel that athletics and game day experiences are main reasons why students are attracted to schools.”

While running college athletics is a business, not every portion has been up to par. Athletic Director Mark Brown admits that Pace can do better when it comes to recruiting.

According to ope.ed.gov/athletics, Pace spent 33, 577 dollars on recruiting expenses this past year. That dollar amount was the second lowest spent on recruiting in the Northeast-10, and Brown agrees that number needs to be higher.

“I saw that [recruiting fig-

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Phi Kappa Tau (PKT)

Cecilia Levine

Feature Editor Cecilia.R.Levine@Pace.edu

All of us can agree that when we first came to Pace the number of Greek organizations on campus was an overwhelming encounter.

Trying to decipher which letter was which and keeping track of who was in which organization caused confusion. However, Phi Kappa Tau’s strong presence and appealing black, red and gold make them easily distinguishable among the other Greeks.

“Our mission statement is, ‘To champion a lifelong commitment to brotherhood, learning, ethical leadership, and exemplary character,’” said senior marketing major and brother, Evan Quijano.

“But that is not all that Phi Tau stands for. We are just a group of guys trying to make the best out of college.”

If one were to spend some time with the brothers, one would find that the bunch is rather spontaneous and holds themselves in a very go-with-the-flow manner. In the high stress environment that college presents us with, the boys of Phi Kappa Tau are a laid-back bunch who are happy to just chill.

“Yeah, we are serious about school,” said Quijano, “but we also know how to relax and have fun.”

Phi Kappa Tau is a national fraternity with 77 active chapters though 146 chapters have been chartered since the organizations founding in 1906 at the University of Miami of Oxford, Ohio.

“I like the opportunities I’ve had to travel and network with other schools,” said junior envi-

ronmental studies major and President of the Epsilon Xi chapter of Phi Kappa Tau, James Ward. “As a national organization Phi Kappa Tau offers many opportunities to its members including leadership workshops and conventions.”

These regional events are held annually where the brothers are able to establish relationships with members in chapters from across the country.

“Scholarships are also available for initiated brothers to apply for,” said Ward.

While a national organization offers many perks to Pace’s Epsilon Xi chapter, “Working together, socializing and just being with the brothers has given me to feel a sense of camaraderie around my own chapter brothers. They are my Pace family,” said Ward.

“The group of people that are already in the organization is really the reason any person joins an organization, no one chooses based on the letter or anything,” said junior information systems major and brother, Martin Zahariev.

Zahariev’s candidness reveals the genuine brotherhood that the boys share, as opposed to any superficial or materialistic aspect that may have otherwise interested them. The brothers of Phi Kappa Tau actively support one another on both a local and national level.

Recently, the Epsilon-Xi chapter worked a benefit for one of their graduated brothers, Chris Ryff, who had been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer.

“The benefit was to raise money for a special medical treatment, and the turnout was even

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Photo from Justin Flores Brothers of Phi Kappa Tau. greater than expected,” said Ward proudly. “We took pride in our work, and comfort in the fact that this isn’t a superficial brotherhood, but one that continues even after our time at Pace.”

Phi Kappa Tau’s philanthropic contribution supports the Seriousfun Children Network Camps, which was founded in 1988 by Phi Kappa Tau, Ohio alumnus, Paul Newman. Newman opened The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, which he envisioned as being a camp for children not only with serious illnesses, but for all ages and backgrounds. Phi Kappa Tau, as a national organization, partnered with the network in 1995.

The boys of Epsilon Xi will be hosting the Hole in the Wall Dinner for the Seriousfun Childrens Network Camps, formerly known as, The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.

Ward explains, “all proceeds will go to funding state of the art adaptive camps for children with serious illnesses. These camps allow children who normally feel isolated by their conditions to feel a sense of acceptance, and to participate in activities that they nor-

mally would not be able to do.”

Nationally, Phi Kappa Tau has proudly raised over one million dollars for their philanthropy.

“We have a reputation on campus of being cocky, which is often confused with confidence,” said Quijano.

However, Phi Kappa Tau’s confident demeanor is certainly justified by their passion and success that the brothers revel in.

“When you’re involved in a Greek organization it becomes part of your identity while at the same time each member helps in defining the organization,” said Ward. “But it is not just the letters on our chest we take pride in, it is all the responsibilities, accomplishments and each other that we are proud of.”

This semester Phi Kappa Tau hopes to present more opportunities for the campus to get to know them. The boys of Epsilon Xi encourage all students to make the most of these. In addition to putting on the Hole in the Wall dinner, Phi Kappa Tau-Epsilon Xi will be co-hosting the E-Waste Drive with the Nature Club in April.

Back to School Blues

Feature Editor Cecilia.R.Levine@Pace.edu

After the holidays have ended and we’re gearing up to hunker down to studying, we get that familiar feeling, similar to what we felt only weeks earlier on Christmas Eve. A feeling that keeps us up all night, anticipating what is to come.

It has been a week since we have been graced with the presence of our beloved college friends, freedom and of course, Paulies! As we unloaded the car packed like Tetris and made sure nothing was forgotten, we come upon a familiar item, containers stuffed to the brim with home cooked food placed there of course by our loving parents.

Debatably the hardest aspect of coming back to school is being faced with cafeteria food. While the food from Chartwells is definitely edible and sometimes even tasty, it is incomparable to the luxury of the home cooked meals that have been at our fingertips for the past four and a half weeks.

How do we deal with the return of mediocrity when our pallets have become accustomed to mommymade comfort food? Do they re-

ally expect us to drop three dollars and fifty cents on one yogurt when just yesterday it was free?

What if we were to try something new and make Kessel our kitchen? We are supplied with toasters and microwaves, raw fruits and veggies, all of the fixins we need to create our own dish! For example, a personal pizza bagel instead of the mundane cheese pizza slice. First we could toast a prepackaged bagel and then smear on a side or two of sauce from the pasta station, sprinkle on cheese and load up on desired veggies from the salad bar. A quick minute in the microwave and there you have it, your very own pizza bagel!

We don’t have to spend our time at Pace doing laps around the cafeteria like it is a walking track. Come finals week we’ll be regretting frivoling away our flex dollars within the first week of classes. We’ve got to learn to expand our horizons using what’s been given to us by Chartwells.

Even though our mothers and little siblings are not here to whip up wacky mac at our every beck and call, we can still throw together something of our own to make coming back to cafeteria food a little more bearable.

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Elephant Killings Continue to Rise in Africa Erin O’GOrman News Editor

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BRAZIL – A fire which occurred at a nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil has killed over 200 people. It is believed that the flames were started by an indoor fireworks display made by a band performing at a club. Sources say the club, which had nearly 2000 people, was over packed and had one exit causing a fire hazard. The large amount of people made it difficult to evacuate thus trapping many inside, which caused death by asphyxiation and smoke inhalation.

ISRAEL – Fear of the dangers of chemical weapons in terrorist hands is causing Israel to consider a pre-emptive strike on Syria. With the recent civil war, there the Israelis are afraid that Syria’s leader, Bashar Assad, will lose his position and thus have no control of the chemical weapons. While Israel has preferred to stay out of Syria’s civil war, they worry that the fighting could come over onto the Israeli border. Many of the people fighting in Syria are groups related to al-Qaida, and Iran, Syria’s biggest ally, is notorious for having chemical weapons, hence why the Israelis are considering their attack.

UNITED STATES – On Jan. 20, Barack Obama took his second oath of office, swearing him in as President of the United States.

Included in the festivities was the traditional inaugural parade, a private concert hosted by the first lady and Jill Biden for military families, the inaugural ball, and pop star Beyoncé Knowles singing the national anthem.

FRANCE/MALI – Forces are moving in from France and Mali-France towards Timbuktu with intentions to drive away the Islamic extremists which have been ruling that part of Africa for nearly a year. The French recently also took over a part of Gao, another city in north Africa ruled

by Islamic extremists, who they drove out. With this success they continued on towards Timbuktu.

Gao is now being patrolled by French and Mali forces.

UNITED STATES – Hilary Clinton is officially stepping down from her position as secretary of state. It is believed she is stepping in order to prepare to run for the election in 2016.

Who is replacing her has not yet been announced. Sources say some choices could be UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Senator John Kerry, or National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon. Her last official day in office will be Feb 1.

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The demand in China for ivory is causing more and more deaths of elephants, leaving entire families dead and babies without mothers.

Each day officials find more dead, their bodies intact but their tusks gone, indicating poaching activity. The ivory is illegally shipped to China where it is used to make goods such as jewelry and cutlery. Now sources say the death toll of elephants is higher than it has ever been before, specifically in Kenya and Tanzania.

The poor class in China is slimming and the middle class is growing, which in turn means that more and more people are able to buy products made from ivory. Without the demand for it, elephant poaching would be a much smaller problem; in addition, many of the military groups throughout Africa poach elephants and sell the ivory to the Chinese as a way to make money for their campaigns.

On Jan. 15, law enforcement in Kenya declared they had found what they believe is the largest smuggle of ivory ever – two tons, estimated to be worth over 1.5 million dollars.

“It’s terrible, a deplorable and vicious act,” said freshman environmental studies major Anthony Jones. “I don’t understand it, elephants are known to be just as complex as humans, why kill them?”

In recent years Kenya has become harsher in punishing elephant poachers. In one case a search by air and foot was put out to look for the poachers who had slaughtered a family of 11 elephants. Another time five poachers were chased and caught and all shot dead. The poachers were found to have over a hundred pounds of ivory.

At the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust orphaned baby elephants can find a home. They are bottle fed by staff and often become attached to their caretakers just as they would to their own parents.

“That shows their complexity,” said Jones. “Once they are

Photos old enough the elephants are reintroduced into the wild. So far nearly eighty have been released.

Staff have even reported adult elephants coming back ‘to visit with their own babies’”.

Many times military groups

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use things like fruit and foil to hide the ivory from sniffer dogs in order to smuggle it out of the country and into China. Ivory is even used as a religious tool by the Chinese, used to make statues of figures such as Jesus. They are

also used to make things such as prayer beards and amulets.

“It’s so tragic how they kill them just for the ivory and leave the body, a waste,” comments Jones.

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the firearms ban currently intact and make laws for having weapons in schools much harsher, as well as a request for a gun permit much more complicated. Included in this bill is also the topic of the country’s mental health care system; now if a doctor such as a psychiatrist or psychotherapist believes their patient is dangerous, they are required by law to report them to the local police. In addition any guns created before 1994 or can hold more than ten bullets are going to be required to be turned over to the state or

sold to someone out of state. And, anything able to hold more than seven rounds would need to be tweaked so that it can only hold seven bullets.

Sophomore criminal justice major Tameka Bazile said, “A big issue is that our laws do not allow for certain things in certain states but completely fall through when it comes to traveling from place to place. I think that our federal government needs to rework gun laws and make them the same everywhere. I also think buying a gun needs to be harder than just hav-

ing a valid ID and willing checkbook. There should be sufficient background checks and questions regarding how the gun will be put to use.”

Workers at a Remington Arms plant in Herkimer County, New York, are terrified this new law will leave them without a job. Interestingly enough, this company makes the assault weapon which Adam Lanza, the gunman who shot up Sandy Hook Elementary School, used.

“A popular argument about making these gun laws a bit tight-

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er is that it negates our rights to bear arms,” said Bazile. “But why is this such an issue if you have no reasons to bear arms? We are protected everyday by law enforcement and our nation’s army.”

The second amendment in the constitution is the right to bear arms, a long and controversial topic. “When war begins to break out in the streets, then we should all get guns,” said Bazile.

“But the war we fight everyday can easily be avoided if we do not have access to certain weapons.”

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My Yoga Pants Bring All the Boys to the Yard Cecilia Levine

Feature Editor Cecilia.R.Levine@Pace.edu

There is always that one girl that you may notice wearing a shirt just a tad too revealing for accounting. She may have makeup plastering every square inch of exposed skin from the neck up and one small pebble has the ability to crack an ankle in those heals. Truth be told, the girl deserves some “kudos” for getting her act together.

The vast majority of us ladies settle for the oh-so-versatile yoga pants. Even though the aforementioned girl chooses to doll herself up and make herself look more appealing, yoga pants have a similar ability in attracting, sometimes unwanted, attention.

This seemingly harmless wardrobe necessity has caused much chaos. Part of the appeal of yoga pants is that they have an

uncanny ability to make legs look slimmer and butts look higher.

The tight, cotton fabric reveals every curve above the knees, making some people uncomfortable. Many girls like the way their body looks under the clingy material. As for the guys, they sure as hell won’t be complaining either.

Pace alumnus Max Spaeth stated, “I like yoga pants because they leave nothing unanswered.”

Should girls continue to wear their yoga pants if they are aware that they will be exposing themselves, even if it is not directly?

Yoga pants have become a wardrobe essential for most females above the age of 10. Junior criminal justice major Arella Ayala wears her trusted slacks up to five times per week.

“I like that they are not just jeans and that they are a comfortable alternative,” she said. “I can wear them almost anywhere

whether it be lounging at home, going to the gym, or even to class.”

That is the appeal of yoga pants to females. They are comfortable, unrestrictive and easy to wear. Females do not pay attention to the fact that yoga pants are just as revealing as low cut shirts and club apparel, however, in a different manner.

Mothers and daughters have an ongoing battle over what is deemed appropriate or not to wear out of the house. It has not been until recently that yoga pants as an inappropriate choice showed up on parents’ radar screens. Parents, both mothers and fathers alike, can agree that yoga pants are indeed as revealing and edgy as some other outfit choices would be. However, this conclusion does not interfere with the overriding comfort factor that yoga pants ensure.

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Pace Perk and 7-11 Make Midnight Snacks Easy Cecilia Levine

Feature Editor Cecilia.R.Levine@Pace.edu

Do you ever find that after the sun goes down, and far past dinner has digested, you feel the need to fill your stomach with some latenight goodies? Maybe you want to reward yourself for completing a quarter of your accounting workbook that you told yourself you’d have finished in its entirety by midnight. Does a quick drive down the street for something to hold you over until morning sound like a familiar experience?

Whatever the case may be, small, late-night establishments have no difficulty in thriving off of hungry college kids.

One of the most popular latenight establishments to Pace students is 7-11. 7-11 is conveniently located just over half a mile down the road from the Pleasantville campus, which makes grabbing an Easy-Mac and Red Bull that much more enticing. Its only downfall being that it does not accept Pace One cards. However, this is only a minor setback to the drunken souls or hard-working scholars craving the alluring provisions that “Sevs” has to offer.

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Another late-night refectory frequently utilized by Pace students is the Pace Perk, located in the basement of the Briarcliff cafeteria. The menu consists of

carbohydrate-heavy delicacies such as pizza, ramen noodles and soft pretzels. Even those with immense self-restraint find great difficulty in resisting the temptress that is, the cookie and ice cream sandwich. “The Perk” is equipped with a television, stage, piano and pool table, which make kicking back easy. Not to mention, the hassle of preparing the food is nonexistent considering the staff takes care of it all.

Nightly eating has become habitual for the average college student. The fatal combination of lack of sleep with a heaping pile of seemingly infinite studying is bound to lead to snacking far after your metabolism has decelerated.

Late at night when your blood sugar takes a turn for the worst and you need that extra boost of sustenance just to help you keep your pen in your hand, it is challenging to concoct a healthy snack when all your mind can seem to think about is whether or not you’ll be able to submit your Blackboard assignments on-time.

Instead of reaching for the candy bar that will inevitably show up on your hips in May, consider a healthy alternative to keep you focused during your final library hours. Your body will thank you the following morning, and you will be grateful in bikini season for a body as strong as your grades.

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Health

Breast Cancer: Should We Get Checked Earlier?

Christiana Lloyd

Health Editor CLloyd@PaceChronicle.com

Getting checked at an earlier age?

It isn’t a huge secret that breast cancer is one of the leading health concerns for women and that it affects a large amount of men, as well. So why is it that girls are waiting until they are already in their thirties to have a mammogram done?

Recent studies have found that there have been a total of 14 thousand 207 women under the age of 40 that have been diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. Out of that, one thousand 160 women under the age of 40 have died from breast cancer.

Breast cancer has slowly become one of the deadliest cancers in today’s medical world, but it also has one of the highest survival rates compared to any other cancer when it is caught at an early stage.

According to the National

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Cancer Institute, it is estimated that approximately 2.6 million US women with a history of breast cancer were alive in Jan. 2008, more than half of who were diagnosed less than 10 years earlier. Most of these individuals are now cancer-free, while others still have evidence of cancer and may still be undergoing treatment.

Studies have also found that during 2004-2008, among adult women, those 20-24 years of age had the lowest incidence rate, 1.5 cases per 100 thousand women.

“I know that I should do the self checks on my own but I have never gone into a doctor to have a full breast exam done,” shared junior Morgan Allen.

It turns out this is not an unusual response when women between the ages of 20-28 are asked if they have been checked.

Although getting checked at an early age won’t help prevent cancer, it will help you and your doctor know where you stand regarding breast cancer, and it can also trace your family history so

that you can know if any other females in your family are at a risk of getting cancer, as well. Getting checked while in your twenties will allow you to catch the cancer while it is in its very earliest stages, saving you from many painful, extensive hospital treatments and potentially saving your life.

When asked her opinion on why many of her patients didn’t get checked sooner, Dr. Verica of Westchester Medical said, “I think it is still that thought of, ‘oh it can never happen to me’ mentality.” She continued, “everyone knows that cancer isn’t something you can run away from, and everyone knows someone that has cancer, survived it, or died from it, but we still seem to have that thought of, ‘no I’m healthy so I should be okay.’”

Keeping your health means preparing for your future health.

Go and get checked, especially if you have a family history of breast cancer.

Influenza Outbreak Christiana Lloyd

Health Editor CLloyd@PaceChronicle.com

This winter is one of the worst in terms of flu outbreak.

Even though we are currently in a decline of newer cases of the flu, many people still seem to get confused about what the flu is exactly compared to other common illnesses.

According to an article put out by the Sherpardstown Chronicle, “Influenza is a viral illness that is spread by respiratory droplets released when infected persons cough or sneeze. People who contract the flu develop fever, chills, cough, headache, and fatigue. It is not common for people who have the flu to have nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.” The article continued, “These symptoms are much more commonly seen in patients with other viruses. The illness caused by the flu typically last between 10 and 14 days. People can become very ill and occasionally pneumonia and even meningitis can be seen.”

It is important to know that unlike the common cold or something similar to it, treatment of influenza is very small and limited. Antibiotics cannot treat the flu and there are very few medications that treat any type of viruses. The flu is one of the viruses that has hardly any medications capable of treating it.

“I got the flu this winter and it was miserable,” said freshman Christian Castillo. “I didn’t have it as long as my cousins did, but that was only because I took Tamiflu when they first got sick so that I wouldn’t catch it.”

Fortunately for him, Castillo had it right; Tamiflu is the most

Photo from ncpedia.org Are you taking proper precautions? commonly used medicine to treat the flu and it works best if you take it within the first 24 to 48 hours that you begin to feel symptoms. No, it doesn’t kill off the virus, but it does shorten the time you will spend hating your body and will also help relieve some of the pain that you will be in. With this being said, the virus still has to pass on its own and will normally take almost two weeks to finally get tired of torturing you.

Nobody wants the flu, so the best way to help prevent yourself from getting it is to constantly wash your hands and keep your hands away from your face. Getting the flu shot wouldn’t hurt, as well. It isn’t 100 percent effective but it will help your chances of staying healthy.

“I hate getting the flu shot because it makes me feel just as sick as I would if I had contracted it in the first place,” said senior Nicho-

las Lopez.

Although a common misconception, the flu shot doesn’t give you the flu. People may tend to experience headaches, fevers, and muscle aches after getting a shot, but feeling one of those symptoms for a day compared to many more over a two-week period is a pretty decent trade.

The reason many people feel symptoms is because the shot is a string of the virus that has been

killed by either chemical or heat.

When injected in the body, it doesn’t replicate like the actual flu virus and cannot cause you any real damage.

So even though the flu is currently starting to become untrending, don’t think that it is too late to get the flu shot to save yourself from two weeks of misery.

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His Hard Truth: Eros High School in College

Welcome back to Heaven, or Hell, depending on how well the last five months have gone for you. For the majority of us who spend their college-winter break back at home with mommy and daddy, it can become very evident who, from college, are really our friends.

If you really pay attention and look at how many people asked you how your break went, at some point you just want to say “well, if you really cared, you would’ve stayed in touch over the last month.” To be fair, everyone does that, including me of course, to some extent and to dive into the topic of “being real” or whatever you’d like to call it, would be like falling into a bottomless pit. Rather, I’d like to dive into the much more interesting topic of the high school relationships.

There are plenty of people in each college setting that continue to stay close with their friends from home. Similarly, there are a bunch of people that decide that their college is their niche and it will be few and far between when those people are found reaching out to their high school friends.

What I’m more intrigued with is the high school relationships and hook ups that seem to pop up for so many people when they go home.

We all know it happens. It is human nature to strive for companionship, and more so, someone to mate with. But when someone talks to their high school ex over break, I can’t help but chuckle. Seriously? Everyone around you knows that it’s a dumb move.

I don’t care if you still have feel-

ings for him/her; aren’t exes in the past for a reason?

Okay, that sounded cliché, but follow me here. No matter what the reason was or who made the decision, you two split.

I can kind of understand if you came into college while in a relationship with this person. At least you tried. But if you broke up before college for whatever reason, it wasn’t that serious, you didn’t want to do the longdistance thing, you wanted to experience college, whatever; you’re only kidding yourself.

If you and your high school ex were talking over break, and God only knows what “talking” really means, you’re only causing yourself trouble. It shouldn’t really matter how sexual things got because any rational person should realize that when it hits a sexual level with any type of friend you’re going to have some level of emotions there. Your life isn’t a Nicholas Sparks book, so if you think rekindling an old flame is a good idea, you need to realize that the last chapter between you two more than likely won’t end with a passionate kiss.

There are exceptions to this rule, just like with any other rule, but if that person wasn’t worth the effort then, they’re not worth the effort now. As any other college student with access to technology, I’m all over the internet and saw something interesting that in this case, applies. “Were you in love with your ex? Have you lived without them? If you said yes to both, or no to the first, save yourselves the time and the effort.”

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Dear Freshman Me...

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(left) Danielle freshman year. (right) Danielle senior year.

Dear Freshman Me, You have graduated to what some now consider the “high life.” The time has come for you to venture out on your own. Don’t get blindsided by distractions, they are there for a moment but your decisions affect your life in the long run. Engage in new adventures and experiences but don’t lose sight of your morals and values. Take advantage of the opportunities at hand, use them to grow and be the best you can be. You are going to have chances at doing things unimaginable, don’t be scared! Whatever you do make sure it’s something that’s going to teach you about life.

Four years is going to go by so quickly, it may sound cliché but it really goes by fast, before you know it you will be graduating. Some of your friends may drop out along the way, that doesn’t make them any less than you, people choose different paths. Have fun, be safe but most of all stay true to yourself and thank God you have made it this far.

Dani

Class of 2013 Bio Psych Major, Honors College

Feather Ruffler Politics:

Ruining Civil Discourse Since 1796 Arthur Augustyn

Managing Editor AAugustyn@PaceChronicle.com

With the election finally over, I bet most people don’t want to hear about politics for another four years. With that in mind, I’ll try to keep this brief because I feel the need to comment on the political climate of this country post-Obama re-election. I’m not really talking about actual politics, but more about people’s reactions to the results and how my faith in the human race dwindles every four years.

For starters, or rather as a disclaimer: I am not a part of a political party. I am registered to vote but was not able to vote in this election because my absentee ballot came in late (I am registered to vote in California, my home state). Had I been given the

opportunity to vote, it would have been for the Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. However, I have donated $15 to the Obama campaign. I did this because my vote is inconsequential (since California is a blue state these days) but my dollar might contribute to something.

I donated to Obama because I thought Romney was a poor candidate, in the same way that I thought John Kerry was a poor candidate (of course I formulated this opinion in retrospect since I wasn’t very politically active in eighth grade). Voting for someone because they are NOT someone else is a bad reason. I think that is also the main reason why anyone paid attention to Romney or Kerry. The point of explaining all this is: I don’t think I am politically biased toward one party.

I think they both have a tendency

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to make good and bad decisions (other quick point: McCain = good, Palin = Bad).

With that out of the way: I’m really tired of everyone exagger-

ating the future of this country and their political knowledge in response to this election. Specifically people who have obtained some media clout and following

who are using their position in the media to be the most repugnant human beings in history.

Here are some examples:

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Spike Lee v. Quentin Tarantino Mute or Unfollow:

The Passive Aggressive Ethics of Twitter

Ebony Turner

Opinion Editor ETurner@PaceChronicle.com

It’s a battle that has been long overdue since Spike has all but forgiven Tyler Perry for his minstrel show depiction of Black people in his films. Tarantino has an odd infatuation with the word “nigger”; an infatuation so passionate and forthright in its use that audiences cringe at every unabashed drop of this n-bomb.

It is relatively easy to see why a director such as Tarantino would garner so much controversy in his inclusion of this word in nearly every film – except for the Kill Bill series.

He’s a white man from Tennessee with an affinity for Blaxploitation films and frequent use of the outspoken and profanity riddled actor Samuel L. Jackson.

While his film technique is unmatched and unique to his erratic personality as a person, I understand the critique from Spike’s point of view as a director who has always had a love affair with the black community and takes his time in expressing the complexities of our culture. Quentin’s recent film Django Unchained features a story about a freed slave played by Jamie Foxx that treks across the country with a bounty hunter to rescue his wife from a brutal slave owner. This quick synopsis does little to fully express the graphic visuals that go on during this film, but for well-seasoned Quentin film enthusiasts it’s to be expected.

The most unnecessary critique of the film that has been unfairly cited as a critique from Spike was the constant use of “nigger” in the film. Not only was the word “nigger” the word used for Black’s during the slave era, but in order to accurately depict any historical moment in American history, you must include the unfortunate

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Is Quentin wrong for bringing a fresh approach to slavery in Hollywood?

ignorance that plagued this time.

“Nigger” was a consequence of the slave era, and the implications of the word and its many numerous renditions have caused decades of controversy leaving the identity of the word just as confusing as the defense of its postslavery use. A movie about slavery wouldn’t be transparent in its honest portrayal if it hadn’t used “nigger” 100 times like it was in “Django.” Images of the brutal slave beatings and the near psychotic mental state of the slave owners were necessary characteristics for the films authentic depiction of slavery.

A frequent hiccup that Quentin tends to run into with all of his films is his tendency to exploit cultures for exploitations sake, not for any definitive purpose but to entertain and humor audiences.

It’s equivalent to Tyler Perry’s past tendency in using Black actors in his films – which is a great deed on his part – not to challenge them as actors and take advantage of his position but to entertain and humor at their expense. That is the point that Spike was trying to make when he stated that he did not want to disgrace his ancestors by watching this film. Not because it isn’t a great thing that Quentin is highlighting a time in history that has yet to be touched since “Roots,” but because of his intentions behind doing so. He dressed up a genocide that happened in our country and convoluted that powerful and pivotal moment in

our history and rather than using it as a teaching moment, used it as a time to humor audiences into thinking freed slaves were bounty hunters dressed in country western apparel.

It is a funny idea, without a doubt, but why did he have to be a slave and why did have to be during the slave era? Wouldn’t it have been just as funny had he not included this time in history that in no way is parallel to a country western? Anyone who has ever caught an early Clint Eastwood country western film on TMC can see that Black people were no where near that set, especially not in the script – not even as an extra. So it is clear that his intent was to capitalize on the irony of placing a Black man in a White dominated scenario and infuse humor and violence in it to water down the message. Quentin’s intent in using certain elements of cultures, especially Black culture, is questionable at best, which is why I understand where Spike is coming from. As a director with clout and respect you are in a position to use American history as more than just a medium for entertainment and humor. I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the film; not every movie or television show is meant to be an agent of change, but heavy topics deserve heavy amounts of respect and good intentions in the purpose of its inclusion, which is an element that Hollywood just won’t understand.

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Is Twitter encouraging passive aggressive ways?

Ebony Turner

Opinion Editor ETurner@PaceChronicle.com

I have every single person I follow from this university muted on my echofon Twitter application.

I’m not proud to make that statement because I realize how passive aggressive it is to save a person’s feelings by muting them but not have the courage to simply remove them completely. It goes without saying that seasoned users of Twitter’s realize how difficult it can be to break it to your friends that you follow on Twitter just how annoying they are in expressing their often unnecessary and ignorant opinions on a multitude of things, which is why the ‘mute’ feature was created.

It allows you to maintain the friendship, follower count and ego from being bruised without having that awkward interaction with an individual you know who knows that you unfollowed them.

It happens to best of us unfortunately and I have been on the receiving end of being unfollowed by a friend. It hurts a little knowing that a person you speak with everyday is not interested in what you have to say over the internet and puts into perspective just how invaluable your opinion really is.

I grew from this social net-

work burn for the better, and have since changed my style up immensely from my early Twitter days, simmering down on rants and raves and only commenting on things I feel I can really contribute to without being annoying.

Social networks are a reflection of who has self-control and who doesn’t. Who has the intellect to express their opinion and who has the maturity to know its appropriate to do so. Often times, just because you have something to say does not necessarily mean you have to say it, which is a lesson every opinionated person needs to learn the hard way.

You learn a great deal about a person by how they govern themselves on social networks and the person who is loudest on the timeline is not always the smartest. I appreciate the efficiency at which you can express quick 140 lettered thoughts of what exactly is going on in your mind, but learning how to express yourself in a way that is evidentiary of some form of tact can help you in the self control department of life all across the board. The mute button is equivalent to being quiet for the rude person in the room instead of telling them just how rude they are. That cold dose of reality can be good for anybody whether than can receive or not.

You’ve Been CatFished?

Ebony Turner

Opinion Editor ETurner@PaceChronicle.com

MTV hit the jackpot with the concept of the show “Catfish.” It teaches you a lesson of the perils of finding love in a hopeless Facebook page while laughing at the naivety of the victims subjected to public scrutiny. But that is exactly what I cannot seem to wrap my head around: how is it that people, in this highly technologically advanced period, are not vetting their prospective internet conquests?

It is almost archaic to believe that if one has found love on Facebook, that they would not at the very least request within the first week to Skype, FaceTime, or Oovoo. These victims have dealt with it all: talking to men for months, almost years, at a time yet only speaking three or four times via telephone and never seeing the individual in person.

Being used as payback from a

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scorned, vindictive teen with an inherited niece from their drug riddled sister and even stealing photos from random modeling agencies that look nothing like the lover on the other end of the computer.

All this show did was reveal to me how desperate we have become as a society in our quest for

love. That we have been reduced to falling for fake profiles on Facebook, or Twitter even, hopelessly believing that the soul mate we have all been conditioned to believe awaits us is only a Wi-Fi connection away. It’s depressing seeing these human car wrecks, but I understand that the quality in the dating pool is relatively

non-existent. I don’t encourage dating online but I also don’t encourage approaching anything without a large amount of a “by any means necessary” attitude behind it. Using any and all sources possible to find what you believe you need takes a lot of courage.

Love in itself takes a lot of courage. Humility, vulnerability and a general openness to understanding another person flaws and all are not easy qualities to submit to; but we still manage to. The bond you share with a person purely on the basis of communication can often exceed any personal encounter you may have. I understand how these catfished victims build these full on relationships with these people because once you have opened yourself up to receive love and to love, logic tends to be a concept that is as hopeless and nonexistent as these fake profiles.

We have all been duped at one point or another by people who were not who they said they were

whether that be the mysterious Darrell Fox Facebook profile with only three photos and 20 friends, or the person we sleep, talk and eat with every day who finally gets comfortable enough to shed the facade that lasted long enough to emotionally hook you into a relationship that was doomed from the start. In both situations you’re often too far gone to remove yourself and dig deep for the logic you put to the side to see hopeless love for exactly what it is: hopeless. We all try to make the best of situations we put so much time and effort into, but at the end of the day if it feels suspicious and fraudulent no amount of love can mask that powerful intuition.

The point I’m trying make is to take it easy on the online daters, because in a way we have all been catfished at some point in our romantic lives and logging off and deleting your profile was probably the scapegoat we wished for when reality wiped away the love we thought we had.

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by Friday, March 1, 2013. If you have any questions, please contact Dean Lisa Bardill Moscaritolo at 914-773-3860.

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Dating Taylor Swift? Why? Movie 43 Review Samantha Finch

Samantha Finch

Arts & Entertainment Editor SFinch@PaceChronicle.com

In the long tradition of celebrity gossip perhaps there is no more prominent topic than relationships, more specifically, break ups. From Jennifer Aniston to Demi Moore and all those in between it is the break ups that lead in headlines.

Celebrities handle breakups in different ways, some get mad, some get even, some cry, others don’t and then there is Taylor Swift, the 23-year-old blond with a nice voice and catchy lyrics who has dated Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, and most recently Conor Kennedy and Harry Styles of One Direction.

What does Taylor Swift do after a breakup? She writes a song about it and in what seems like overnight it becomes a hit.

Flashback to her first “hit” from her first self-titled album back in 2006. The song that started it all: “Teardrops on my Guitar” (TOMG). TOMG is the breakup soundtrack that defined many aspects of Swift’s career and is one of her first pieces that pushed her into the spotlight.

Flash-forward to 2008, who could forget about “White Horse”, “Forever and for Always”, and “Fifteen” from her second album Fearless, or in 2010 “Back to December” and “Story of Us” on her Speak Now album.

Then there is the album Red, which was released on Oct. 22, 2012 and already has made its way up the music selling charts, securing a number one spot on Billboard 200 charts for several weeks during the end of 2012 and

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Photo from httpryanseacrest.com Taylor Swift from the set of her song ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ start of 2013.

The Red album is yet a collection of songs that, again, follow love, and break ups. The album features songs such as “Red”, “Treacherous”, “I Knew You Were Trouble”, and of course there is the first single off the album which was “We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together.”

While it’s not to say that ALL of Swift’s songs are about losing someone you loved, a lot of her songs are. That being said, why would any guy want to date her?

After Tina Fey jokingly warned Swift not to go after Michael J. Fox’s son at the Golden Globes earlier in January, a New York’s magazine Vulture Blog interviewed Michael J. Fox and he expressed that doesn’t want his 23 year-old son, Sam, to date the pop sensation.

“I don’t keep up with it all.

But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career,” said Fox. While the date-ability of Taylor Swift has been brought up around the internet from several sources perhaps many are forgetting Swift’s side. In the Nov. 16, 2012 interview with Susan Domi-

nus of New York Times Swift was asked if she has been approached by ex’s asking her not to write about them. She responded by saying: “The only time that has ever crossed someone’s mind was when we were in the process of breaking up,” Swift said.

The young artist then continued saying after the next question, “Look, it’s not like it was written somewhere in the fine print that I write songs about my life. If we break up, I’m going to write about it. But I’m probably also going to write about when I fell in love with you. So there’s an upside.”

Senior childhood education major Kelsey Igo said regarding Fox’s response, “It makes sense, who would want their love life blasted out in a song; I don’t think many guys would. Yet, at the same time it is Taylor Swift, why wouldn’t you want to date her?”

In the end Swift is just being herself. She writes from experience and her muse is her life, specifically love. Whether one would date her is up to the individual however all must at least consider this, she comes with a warning label: Don’t give her a reason to write about you.

With such a well-known cast it is a surprise that Movie 43 didn’t receive as much press attention as one would expect with such a celebrity filled film.

Though advertisements and trailers circulated online and on television, the film hit the box office relatively under the radar compared to other weekend releases including Parker, starring Jennifer Lopez (The Wedding Planner) and Jason Statham (Crank) and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, starring Jeremy Renner (The Avengers), Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia), and Famke Janssen (Taken).

Described as a comedy, Movie 43 starred well-known actors and actresses including Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow, 2004), Kate Winslet (Titanic, 1997), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine/X-men series, 2000- 2014), Emma Stone (Easy A, 2010), Anna Ferris (The House Bunny, 2008), and more.

Yet, despite the number of famous stars on set, the film almost didn’t come to fruition.

According to a piece by FoxNews.com the film took almost 10 years before it left the idea pad and was made into a movie.

Additionally, the article mentioned that according to producer John Penotti, the film was even dropped days before filming because the parent company of the studio thought it was “too outrageous”.

Eventually the film found a company to call home in Relativity Media.

The film, which follows a series of shorts under the umbrella of one central concept and was similar in set up to films such as Valentine’s Day (2010) and Paris, I love you (2006). There is only one difference, everything else about the movie.

Movie 43 is a crude, intense, and often disturbing movie that will leave some laughing and other borderline freaked out.

While the film had moments of good writing, humorous antidotes, and funny overtones, these moments were few and far between. The general storyline was hard to follow. This was further complicated by the collection of 12 directors (approximately one per short) adding to the confusion and making very little in the film consistent.

In the end this film is not for the soft-hearted or easily offended. That being said, some will love this film, others will completely hate it, and even some with hate it now and love it later.

One thing that is defiantly important to note is that Movie 43 pushes boundaries, a lot of them, but still has a few fleeting moments of actual content.

According to Rotten Tomatoes the film scored a mere five percent approval rating by critics and only 43 percent from the audience. Movie 43 brought in five million dollars on its premiere weekend, ranking number seven on the box office list according to IMdb.com.

For more information regarding Movie 43 or the actors and actress in the film please visit Imdb. com.

The Biker verses the Zombie Samantha Finch

Arts & Entertainment Editor SFinch@PaceChronicle.com

In a world where bikers and zombies once coexisted in a peaceful harmony, that surreal universe has now been shattered after the show runner for the hit AMC show “The Walking Dead” announced he would not return for season four.

When news broke that Glen Mazzara, the show runner since the second seasons of “The Walking Dead”, decided to leave the popular zombie show, many cried that AMC was no place for the creative show runner, including “The Shield” creator, Shawn Ryan and none other than that of Kurt Sutter, creator and producer of the hit FX television motorcycle show “Sons of Anarchy.”

Though it has been reported that the split between Mazzara and AMC was amicable and due to creative differences, both Ryan and Sutter went to Twitter.

Sutter went on to state not only is AMC “small minded” and full of “bottom-line thinkers” but additionally that Mazzara is the reason the zombie show had any future at all, citing “Even zom-

bies need consistency.”

Though the comments were later reported to be removed, Robert Kirkman, creator of “The Walking Dead” comic and owner of the rights to the television program went to Twitter himself stating the following: “@sutterink is brilliant and Sons is my favorite show on TV. Still, it’s upsetting to see him ranting about things he knows nothing about.”

Sutter, who is known for being open with his opinions, has said that not only does he think that so many behind the scene staff changes will not be in the best interest of the show but also that the series will eventually plummet because of lack of consistency.

In two videos posted on Sutter’s website sutterink.com that were dated Jan. 2, Sutter spoke about “the death of the creative process” speaking specifically of “The Walking Dead”.

He predicted that “In season 4, when this will all happen, the numbers will be big, and people will show up. Will it continue to do well? No. My sense is that without somebody like a Glen Mazzara running that show, eventually it will lose focus and the

Photo from IMBD Sons of Anarchy vs. Walking Dead. narratives will run out of steam, and it won’t be able to build off of itself, and it will suffer.”

“I think this little feud between “Sons of Anarchy” and “The Walking Dead” is unnecessary,” said sophomore applied psychology major Jessica Paliswiat. “Both shows have accomplished a lot over the past year. Instead of fighting and badmouthing each other, they should have mutual respect over the fact

that they are both exceptionally entertaining, which is proven by their huge fan bases.”

Recently, CEO of AMC Josh Sapan spoke out stating, according to the Huffington Post, that AMC does promote the creative process but also is open to creative ideas.

“I don’t think it is professional, it doesn’t concern them,” said senior communications major Felicia DiGiacomo.

“It’s sort of like gossiping about people you know nothing about; it doesn’t concern them and therefore the show creators of one show should not comment on what changes another show makes.”

Season four will feature Scott Gimple as the new show runner.

Gimple has been with the show since season two and has a vast understanding of the comics according to Kirkman. Gimple was the series supervising producers.

In the end this is not the first staff changes to be made to “The Walking Dead”; Mazzara replaced Frank Darabont as the show runner in the second season.

Additionally, the show has killed off many major characters so far in the series.

Only the future will show what will happen with both hit shows, however, we hope peace is on the horizon for both the Zombies and the Bikers.

“The Walking Dead” returns to AMC on Sun. Feb. 10 for the midseason premiere of season three.

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Coming Soon to Netflix Samantha Finch

Arts & Entertainment Editor SFinch@PaceChronicle.com

In between the classes and the events, the homework and laundry, every student needs a few hours to relax and enjoy this point in life known as “college”.

So whether you are spending the day with your roommate, hanging out with other friends, or even enjoying some alone time, here are some films that soon will be released to Netflix that you, and your friends, can sit back and enjoy.

Dirty Work- This 1998 film stars Norm MacDonald (Billy Madison) and Artie Lange (“Mad TV”) and follows the story of the unemployed protagonist Mitch who, along with his best friend Sam, start a “dangerous business” for hire to raise 50 thousand dollars to help Sam’s father receive a much needed medical procedure.

These so called slackers are now forced to enter the work field and find their calling and an unlikely place. This film was directed by Bob Saget (“Full House”) and received a 17 percent critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes, however, received a 64 percent approval by the film’s audience. The film will hit Netflix streaming on Jan. 31.

Ferris Bueller’s Day OffThis John Hughes film was released in 1986, starring Mathew Broderick (The Lion King), Alan Ruck (“Spin City”) and Mia Sara (Timecop). The story follows Ferris, the class clown, after he is able to convince his school principal that he is deathly sick. The

Photo from New York Daily News Ferris Bueller enjoys his day off on a parade float. young trouble maker spends the day running through the streets of Chicago with his friends, having a great time, but an unforeseen issue leaves him struggling to tie up the loose ends of his “day off” from school. The film was well received by both critics and fans receiving both an 84 percent by film experts and 89 percent by the audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

The film will be available on Netflix on Feb. 1.

Species- This 1995 science fiction film directed by Roger Donaldson will leave you shak-

ing but will bring up some very interesting questions about life outside of the human race and the dangers of scientific experiments.

Starring Ben Kingsly (Gandhi and Shutter Island) and Natasha Henstridge (The Whole Nine Yards), the film follows a female alien hybrid after she escapes her facility. The “women”, Sil, was created after the mixing of DNA, and must be caught before she finds a mate leading scientist on a deadly chase. The film received a 36 percent review rate by both critics and the audience but was

renewed for two more installments. The film will arrive on your Netflix queue on Feb. 1.

Mona Lisa Smile- This 2003 film was directed by Mike Newell and stars celebrities including Julia Roberts (Pretty Women), Kristen Dunst (Spider Man), Julia Stiles (Save the Last Dance), and Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight). Set in 1953, the story follows an art history teacher as she tries to inspire her women students at Wellesley College to branch outside the expectation of marriage. This controversy leads

to some trouble for the teacher, for as she pushes the women to think about themselves rather than the societal beliefs of the time she is pressured by those who prefer the status quo. The film received a 61 percent approval rating by the audience on Rotten Tomatoes despite only receiving a 35 percent approval rating by critics. Mona Lisa Smile will arrive on the Netflix website on Feb. 7.

This list was compiled from http://www.streamingsoon.com/.

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Oh No Te’o CJ Dudek

Sports Columnist CDudek@PaceChronicle.com

On Oct. 2 Manti Te’o sat in front of a TV camera and proceeded to convince the world that he was distraught by the death of a girl that didn’t exist.

Even if Te’o was duped at the beginning of this tragic hoax, the sit down he did with ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski immediately stripped him of deniability. That interview was the point of no return for Te’o as the victim – that is, if he ever was the victim.

While Te’o spoke to Wojciechowski, he controlled the story. His lies were being interpreted as facts. The made-for-Hollywood story was so good that everyone believed it for the duration of the college football season.

Te’o called the apparition “the most beautiful girl I’ve ever met, not because of her physical beauty but the beauty of her character.”

It is inconceivable that Te’o didn’t utilize this for his own gain. Te’o overcoming adversity and playing well in Kekua’s memory propelled his Heisman trophy campaign. Everyone could get behind an athlete who lost someone meaningful in his life.

Te’o and Notre Dame were compelling storylines for the entire year in part because of the false personal tragedy.

If Te’o truly was duped he would not have told the LA Times on Dec. 10 that he was going to play a few days after her burial because “she made me promise, when it happened, that I would stay and play.”

That promise was false.

The pictures of Kekua were instead of a woman named Diane O’Meara. The persona of Kekua was just a figure of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo’s warped imagination.

Granted these kids are not the only ones at fault here.

Wojciechowski even admitted in an ESPN phone interview on Jan. 16 that he couldn’t find Kekua in any obituary and did

not speak to Kekua’s “parents” at Te’o’s request.

Still, when a subject’s grief appears to be that real in the moment, most journalists wouldn’t press the matter. Especially since it was a college athlete at a prominent program who lost his grandmother earlier that month.

Between Lance Armstrong and the many lies of steroid users, Te’o’s narrative was the alternative: an athlete that overcomes personal tragedy through good play.

Now that all-important, feel-good storyline will be forever under fire for college football players. There will be conspiracy theorists that doubt the good stories of others because of Te’o’s selfish lies.

This story won’t impact Te’o’s draft stock because it doesn’t show up on game film.

While Te’o did say her memory inspired him, scouts will just see how quickly he can get to a running back on tape.

If Te’o really was grieving, it is plausible to think that at some point he would have stopped talking about her. A grieving boyfriend would eventually ask the media to leave him alone if they were pressing him, especially a college kid.

That is why it is impossible to believe Te’o was the victim.

For how long the hoax lasted, how much he talked about her after learning she didn’t exist, how little the media knew about her, and how successful he was all suggest that Te’o knew of the ruse and used it to gain notoriety.

Te’o was a linebacker at a well-known college and a good player to boot. This ruse was not necessary for him to reach the level of stardom he achieved. Now nobody can believe a word that comes out of his mouth ever again.

If Te’o ever plans to sit down for an exclusive interview again he better plan on getting his story straight.

ure], too, and said, ‘that can’t be right’,” Brown said. “Our recruiting process starts with an academic profile [of the student].

You can be eligible to play sports in the NCAA, but we don’t recruit these students if they don’t meet Pace’s admission requirements; by the time you apply filters you shrink the pool of kids we can recruit.”

Even with self-imposed restrictions on recruiting, Brown said that Pace needs to get better at acquiring quality talent.

“We aren’t aiming high enough,” Brown said. “I think there is a correlation between recruiting expenses and success.

We are recruiting too safely.”

Upon hearing that, one could ask why Pace does not take more chances on students who may have more athletic prowess than intellectual prowess. While Pace imposes certain academic standards for their recruits, Brown admitted certain venues might not be as visually appealing to the eyes of prospective athletes.

“If you are playing lacrosse or football here you are a part of the worst facilities in the NE-10,” Brown said. “Students and student athletes buy with their eyes.”

While the prospective student athletes will shop with their eyes, the ones who are already here may not buy the figures so willingly.

Sports like cheerleading and dancing are not mentioned in the report by name specifically. This fact irked Clarke who has been a cheerleader since her freshman days at Pace.

“The information that stuck out to me was that Cheerleading is not even listed as one of Pace’s sports,” Clarke said. “We pay for our uniforms, and any additional attire we wear. Cheerleading is a sport and we are very active on campus.”

To be fair, the figures on dancing and cheerleading are included in Pace’s expenditure. Looking at the ‘Expenses’ portion of the report, the cost of operating dancing, cheerleading, and other sports not directly mentioned by

name are included in the ‘Not Allocated by Gender/Sport’ line.

According to ope.ed.gov/athletics, those sports, which include dancing and cheerleading, cost 1,803,705 dollars to run and bring in 1,783,280 dollars to Pace.

While most students could reasonably perceive that football is the biggest source of school spending, that is not the case.

“I thought football cost the most to run because they have more equipment, more people on their team, and they travel a lot,” sophomore biochemistry major Ashley Geary said. “It was interesting to learn that the total cost of the football and basketball teams alone made almost as much as the other teams put together.”

According to ope.ed.gov/athletics, Pace spent 1,038,277 million dollars on football expenses a year ago.

In contrast, the total between the men’s and women’s basketball teams spent a combined 1,565,597 million dollars. While the football team’s expenses make up approximately 14 percent of the athletic spending, the basketball teams combined make up approximately 21 percent of Pace’s spending.

Even though spending is a numbers game, there are students’ financial situations that hang in the balance of business decisions.

In 2012, Pace cut men’s and women’s track, men’s and women’s tennis, the equestrian team, and the golf team from the athletic program. Ope.ed.gov/athletics reported that the combined total cost of operating men’s track, women’s track, and golf was 131,406 dollars between them per game. The football team cost 167,937 dollars to run per game.

By the same token, it cost around 36 thousand dollars less for Pace to operate these four teams (men’s and women’s combined) than operating a football team that did not win a game a year ago.

Still, the numbers only tell a part of the story. Brown said that every decision behind the potential removal of a program

depended on six interwoven factors. Pace considers the alumnae reaction, historical competitiveness, number of student athletes affected, paying trainers, facilities cost, and the overall budget outlook.

When those factors don’t add up, decisions to remove programs such as the removal of the equestrian and tennis teams are executed.

“We took a very systematic approach in making those decisions,” Brown said. “The fact is football and basketball generate the most revenue for the school - it is all about making a sound business decision.” He continued, “tennis does not develop a school spirit turnout like other sports on campus do, and when we looked at all 18 sports and compared them to other universities, sponsoring equestrian didn’t make the same level of sense.”

Although students may not agree with every financial decision made by Pace, seeing the figures first hand helps.

Senior criminal justice major Elliot Johnson first saw the reports on one of the Mac computers in the library. While the initial response was that of surprise, Johnson was able to understand both sides the reports presented.

“Because I’m not the athletic director and because I don’t know the specifics of their finances, I’m not going to pass judgment,” Johnson said. “As an athlete who has played several sports, I understand the necessity for money, and I just think that the student athlete body should know where the money is going.”

With the Mayan apocalypse past and the new year upon Pace, there is room for improvement on all sides. Brown did admit that there most likely would not be an earth-shattering shift in money into athletics.

Still that should not stop students and faculty alike from logging on to ope.ed.gov/athletics to see what the numbers are first hand.

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Setters Notch Nailbiter CJ Dudek

Sports Editor CDudek@PaceChronicle.com

The ball bounced from the back of the glass through the bottom of the net and sent the Setters home happy.

Pace defeated the Penmen of Southern New Hampshire University 50-49 on a game-winning bucket by graduate media and communications major Jessica Scannell. It was the second time in the last three games Scannell has scored a game-winning bucket for the Setters.

Although Pace was able to secure a 25-16 first half lead, the visiting team battled back in the second act. The Penmen snatched the lead from Pace at the 10-minute mark of the second half and wrestled them for it throughout regulation.

The Penmen took the lead with 2:09 to go in the game when Loretta Rocha scored on a layup.

The Setters regained the lead

Photo from Stockton The Setter notch another close win. on Scannell’s only basket of the evening and never relinquished it from that moment on.

While the Setters only won by a point, it took the entire team to secure the victory. Graduate political science major Brit-

tany Shields put up 14 points on the night and senior psychology major Allison Cleary added 13 points of her own.

Although no other player on Pace had more than 10 points, Pace’s execution throughout the

game was enough. The Setters out rebounded the Penmen 3824 and Pace also shot 42 percent compared to just 41 percent from Southern New Hampshire.

One area where the Setters floored the Penmen was when the

home team got a second opportunity. Pace had 11 second-chance points over the course of the game compared to just two from Southern New Hampshire.

The reserves for Pace managed to put up 10 points while the visiting team managed just six bench points. Freshman biology major Yuni Sher lead the second unit of the Setters with a total of eight points off the pine.

One area the Setters should focus on in their next game will be cutting down on turnovers.

Pace relinquished possession 21 times throughout the game compared to just 15 from the Penmen.

Pace averages 17.6 giveaways per game on the year and has turned the rock over 75 times in the last four games.

Pace is now 9-7 on the year with a record of 7-5 in the NE10. The next game for the Setters will come on Jan. 29 when they square off against the Warriors of Merrimack College.

Setters Fall Late

CJ Dudek

Sports Editor CDudek@PaceChronicle.com

The sweet taste of a milestone was soiled in the game’s waning moments for the men’s basketball team.

Junior business major Denzel Primus-Devonish surpassed the 300 assist mark for his career as the Setters lost to the Penmen of Southern New Hampshire University 68-67 in the contest’s final moments. Only 12 other Setter have ever surpassed 300 assists in their careers and Primus-Devonish became number 13.

Still milestones don’t guarantee victories and the visiting Penmen reiterated that point in the closing seconds of the contest.

This game featured a riveting finish for the 271 fans in attendance. When the home team was down 66-64 with less than 30 seconds to go junior finance major Ahmad George got a steal and a bucket to tie the game at 66.

George hit a free throw to give

the Setters their last lead of the evening before Mike Stys hit a layup with nine seconds left to play.

It was a tightly contested contest in almost every statistical category. The Penmen notched 16 assists compared to just 15 from Pace, and both teams shot 42 percent from the field on the evening. Also neither team had a lead larger than eight points at any point in the game.

Pace dominated in the points off turnovers category with 32 compared to just eight Penmen points off mistakes. The Setters also only gave the ball up ten times compared to a total of 17 by Southern New Hampshire.

Still the Penmen were able to win outright on the glass by out-rebounding the Setters 41-33 throughout the game. The leading rebounder for the Penmen was C.J. Marriro with 12 on the evening.

Also, the Setters had no answer for the offensive onslaught from B.J. Cardarelli. Southern New Hampshire’s leading scor-

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The Setters fall in the closing seconds. er tallied 32 points on his own throughout the game. No other Penmen had more than ten points other than Cardarelli.

The Setters got a good output from junior forward Jonathan Merceus who scored 24 points and snatched nine rebounds from

the rafters of Goldstein Fitness Center. Pace also had two other players in double figures on the evening. Primus-Devonish racked up 14 points and junior information technology major Kai Smith had eleven points of his own in the game.

With the loss Pace falls to 8-8 overall with a record of 5-7 in the Northeast-10. The Setters will look to relocate their winning ways against the Warriors of Merrimack College on Jan. 29.

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